Bengt Svensson
Generalmajor (Sweden), Major General Bengt Allan Svensson (born 24 February 1958) is a retired Swedish Army officer. Svensson served as Assistant Chief of Armed Forces Training & Procurement from 2012 to 2014. Career Svensson was born on 24 February 1958 in Karlskrona, Sweden. He graduated from the Military Academy Karlberg in 1982 and was commissioned as an officer and assigned to the Scanian Anti-Aircraft Corps, Scanian Anti-Aircraft Regiment in Ystad with the rank of ''fänrik''. He was promoted to captain in 1983 and attended the Artillery and Engineering College in Stockholm from 1984 to 1985. He then served as platoon leader in Cyprus within the Swedish contingent of United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1986. Svensson served as platoon leader in the Scanian Anti-Aircraft Regiment from 1986 to 1988 and attended the Tactical Course at the Swedish Defence University, Swedish National Defence College from 1988 to 1989 when he was promoted to major. Svensson ...
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Karlskrona
Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's largest naval base and the headquarters of the Swedish Coast Guard. Historically, the city has been home to a German minority, thus enabling the formation of a German Congregational church. It also counted Jewish people in its population. In 1998, parts of the city, including the Karlskrona naval base, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History The island on which Karlskrona was built, Trossö, was owned during the 17th century by the farmer Vittus Andersson. Under Danish rule, there was another, older town called Lyckå on the mainland a couple of kilometers away. A little further away, the Danes had started to build Kristianopel before Blekinge fell under Swedish rule in 1658. Until 1679, the island and the nearby isl ...
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